He then cleared IELTS and went to Canada. Later, he did engineering at Guru Nanak Engineering College in Ludhiana. He did his class XII in non-medical and would sell his songs to earn a living. He used to go to his school by cycling 24 kilometres daily, as there was no bus service to our village. This child could never get full pocket money. He was just like any other boy of his age. Shedding light on his son’s life, he said, “Sidhu led a simple life. Sidhu Moosewala’s parents – Balkaur Singh and Charan Kaur – address the gathering at the bhog ceremony of their son at Grain Market, Mansa, June 8, 2022. Estimates say 1.50 lakh people attended the bhog ceremony. Those who could not reach the grain market paid tributes to Moosewala at the samadhi (tomb) in his farmland.Īfter the ceremony, people remained stuck in a 15-kilometre-long traffic jam on the Mansa-Sirsa Road which connects Punjab and Haryana. Moosewala’s appeal could be gauged from the fact that despite the heat, youth, children and the elderly kept pouring into Mansa until the bhog ceremony was over. In Canada, the US and the UK, special prayer meets and candle marches were held by the Punjabi diaspora. He was cremated on May 31 in his family’s fields at Moosa village in Mansa.Įven his cremation saw a gathering of lakhs from Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi. Moosewala was shot dead on May 29 at Jawahar ke village, Mansa district by unidentified assailants, sending shock waves across Punjab and the world. Jalandhar: Placards, posters and youngsters wearing T-shirts of Sidhu Moosewala aka Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu (28) sought justice for the slain Punjabi singer, as a sea of people gathered to attend the antim ardas and bhog ceremony – the final Sikh ritual performed after a person’s death – at the Grain Market in Mansa on Wednesday.
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